Austin College alumni and friends celebrated Homecoming at The Post in downtown Sherman on October 18, 2025.
At a McKinney High School end-of-year celebration, Sarah Beatty Snyder ’04 gathered some of the other Austin College alumni who work at the school to honor the retirement of Mike Bruck ’84, MA ’86 and Cathy Sanders Hockaday ’85.
Pictured (L to R): Sarah Beatty Snyder ’04; Lucy Melgar Moon ’96, MAT ’97; Mike Bruck ’84, MA ’86; Cathy Sanders Hockaday ’85; Cindy Nead Erhart ’91, MAT ’92; Robert Jones ’19, MAT ’20.
In early April 2025, Lucy Clark ’63, Madeleine Baker ’63, Cay McCorkle Noble ’63, Mary Pope Coslett ’63, and Fredericka Richter DeBerry ’62, five friends who met on the second floor of Clyce Hall’s south wing in 1959, met up for one last hurrah! The group’s annual visits started in 2000, and have continued with up to nine people attending. The friends of 66 years are Fredericka—known then as Schotsie Richter—the sophomore who taught the group how to do the North Texas Push using her closet door as a partner; Madeleine; Lucy—known as Lu; Cay; and Mary. Two who were sorely missed were Ann Sullivan Rarden ’63 and Jane Langston Larkin ’63. The ladies celebrated friendships solidified in those early years, no doubt by the fact that they had to be in the dorm at 10 p.m. every night except Fridays and Saturdays. “The hours after curfew were when we would sit in someone’s room and talk until the wee hours, and then study!” says Lucy. “Austin College’s Clyce Hall dorm life was a highlight of our female social lives, for which we are grateful today!”
Photo taken at Brenham’s Antique Rose Emporium on May 7, 2025. (L to R): Madeleine, Cay, Lucy, Mary, Fredericka.